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Interview with Professor Israel Gutman, Historian
Professor Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw in and was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, the Jewish underground resistance in Warsaw, and the Jewish Combat Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. He was a prisoner at the Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen concentration camps. After the end of World War II he was active in the Jewish and Zionist ungdom organizations in Austria and in Italy. In , he immigrated to Israel (then British Mandatory Palestine) and was a member of Lehavot Habashan Kibbutz until In , he testified at the Eichmann Trial. He was also a founding member of the Moreshet, Mordechai Anielewicz Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center, and later became the organization’s director. In , he received his PHD from the Hebrew University for his essay “The Resistance Movement and the Armed Uprising of Warsaw Jews in the Ghetto ”. As part of his academic activity at the Hebrew University he was • “They Are So Alive Inside Me”1 On Tuesday, October 1, , Prof. Yisrael Gutman, one of the giants of Holocaust research in Israel and the world over, passed away in bed in his Jerusalem home at the age of ninety. Yisrael Gutman’s death marks a turning point in research into the fate of European Jewry during World War II not only due to the passing of a seminal historian who — together with his colleague, Prof. Yehuda Bauer, who remains with us — laid the foundations for this research field at the Hebrew University and Yad Vashem, but also because his death comes to painfully remind us of the steadily dwindling generation of survivors. Indeed, Gutman was among the researchers who personally experienced the horrors of that era and, once it ended, had the psychological fortitude to subject the era to critical, balanced, and painstaking investigation.2 Yisrael Gutman was born in Warsaw in to a warm •Yisrael Gutman (–) - Holocaust Survivor, Ghetto Fighter, and Jewish Historian
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
“Amid the dark alleyways and crumbling walls of their rat-infested, disease-ridden Ghetto prison, 40, men, women and children, the proletarian remnants of the Jewish population of Warsaw, Poland, went to their death battling arms in hand against the massed, trained legions of Hitler.
“With weapons sufficient for only 3, fighters, the starved and ragged Jewish workers, who were organized and led by the labor and socialist underground movement, for six weeks held out with revolvers, rifles, a few machine guns, home-made bombs, knives, clubs and stones against thousands of trained soldiers using heavy artillery, tanks, flame throwers and aerial bombs.
“The battle ended only after the Nazis dynamited and put to